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dc.contributor.authorBjærke, Marit Ruge
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-12T07:08:30Z
dc.date.available2020-08-12T07:08:30Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.PublishedBjærke MR. Making Invisible Changes Visible: Animal Examples and the Communication of Biodiversity Loss. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. 2019;11(3-4):394-414eng
dc.identifier.issn2000-1525
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/23668
dc.description.abstractCommunicating biodiversity loss and other environmental threats is never only about relating natural science data. How different environmental discourses are presented, how they intertwine, and what concepts of nature are implied, are important parts of environmental communication. The release of the 2015 Norwegian Red List for Species by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre was commented on by governmental and non-governmental organizations, and was covered quite extensively in Norwegian national and local papers. In this article, I investigate the use of animals as examples in media texts on the Norwegian Red List, and the different conceptions of biodiversity loss that they activate. The examples studied in the article vary from the listing of species’ names to longer narratives connected with a single species. What they have in common, however, is that the authors use them to make the general issue of the texts more real and understandable to the reader or listener. The conceptions of biodiversity, produced through animal examples in the various media, ranged from happiness and childhood magic, to a climate-changed future, and to recreational hunting. The close reading of the examples shows that both the choice of species and, more specifically, which of the species’ many relationships to portray as part of the exemplary narrative, is crucial to the conceptions of biodiversity loss and of nature that are conveyed to the public. Through their way of both exceeding and reducing the general statement they are meant to illustrate, the examples bring some ideas about biodiversity loss to the foreground, but at the same time obscure others, thus providing insight into how biodiversity loss is constructed and communicated as an environmental problem.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherLinköping University Electronic Presseng
dc.relation.urihttp://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article.asp?DOI=10.3384/cu.2000.1525.191127#
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NCeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/eng
dc.titleMaking Invisible Changes Visible: Animal Examples and the Communication of Biodiversity Losseng
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.date.updated2019-12-03T07:38:21Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)eng
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.191127
dc.identifier.cristin1755799
dc.source.journalCulture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 268094


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